Main articles: Susan B. Anthony,
Women's suffrageWomen's suffrage in the United
States, and Nineteenth Amendment to the
United StatesUnited States Constitution
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony is known for her leadership in the long campaign for
women's right to vote in the
United StatesUnited States and also abroad. She
indicated her interest as early as 1852, when she attended the
National Women’s Rights Convention in Syracuse, New York. She was
also a vigorous opponent of slavery. In 1863, during the American
Civil War, she and
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton organized the Women's Loyal
National League, the first national women's political organization in
the U.S.[19] It collected nearly 400,000 signatures on petitions to
abolish slavery in the largest petition drive in the nation's history
up to that time.[20]

The call to the League's founding convention.

By the end of the Civil War," according to historian Ann D. Gordon,
"
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony occupied new social and political territory. She was
emerging on the national scene as a female leader, something new in
American history, and she did so as a single woman in a culture that
perceived the spinster as anomalous and unguarded ... By the 1880s,
she was among the senior political figures in the United States."[21]
After the Civil War, Anthony worked primarily for women's suffrage,
the legal right of women to vote. This right was established over the
course of several decades, first in various states and localities,
sometimes on a limited basis. It was established nationally in 1920
with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States
Constitution, which had been introduced in Congress in 1878 by Senator
Aaron A. Sargent, a friend of Anthony's. The amendment was popularly
known as the
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Amendment in recognition of her
leadership in achieving its passage.[22] She died in 1906, fourteen
years before it became the law of the land.
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